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The expert team continued their training in Frozen Wastes (Lv.108-110), Bahamar Murky Bayou (Lv.111-113), and Bahamar Underground Cave 1F (Lv.113-115). Running through the swamp sink-holes is a nuisance, so they saved a warp point in Caebolan (aka Tierra Putrefacta) and entered the cave from there. In Bahamar Underground Cave 1F, they looted Summon Pedobear Ring, Quarto Taglio Ring, and 3 controllers.

Sword of the New World is having a Thanksgiving Loyalty Event. Login from Nov 26 (Thu) to Nov 29 (Sun), 2009 (PST) and receive 5 Mystic Ampules. It's nothing much, but still better than nothing. I don't recall having anything at all last year.

There is also an Enchant Chips Promotion during Nov 26 (Thu) to Nov 29 (Sun), 2009 (PST). Get a free Lv.100 Enchantment Chip for every purchase of 500 gold, up to a limit of 20 chips.

Now that Hron's Treasure Trove has been removed and ABS has been pushed to the wayside, sGE is introducing Hellena's Circus of Fate to distribute some of the items seen in Coimbra Shuffle!!. All pioneers are given 20 free tickets for the beta test.

Premium Prizes
Alternatively, you can use a ticket to gamble with Hellena, costing 1,500 G-Points per round. If you win, you can get 1-3 Token or 1 Gold Token. Prizes can be claimed with 1-15 Tokens. A Gold Token allows you to pick any prize of your choice.

Thelandira (f/mus) finally maximized her Bare Knuckle stance in Bahamar Marsh, and looted a Robe of Superb Daemon in Bahamar Murky Bayou. Meanwhile, Empedocles (m/ele) consumed his share of EXP Cards and became the 9th expert.

The low-level experts spent 4 hours inside Secret Tower 1F, and never got a single key. All they looted were some Lv.80-92 equipment and a Sapphire (Gosh, it's not even High Quality!). The family won't be going back to the Secret Tower of FAIL until they improve the drop rate for the keys by 100% in v3.2.

The experts and veterans hunted a few Swamp Anglers and Gullfaxis, but they hated me as usual, only dropping some Lv.80-96 equipment, Pure Gold Bars, and Lv.92-96 Enchantment Chips. After failing one hunt this week, the treasure hunters found their 29th Fire Isle Treasure in Zone 2: Bracelet of Great Soul, Bracelet of Neptune, and Elite Rafael's Sabre.

I'm getting bored of the New World again. Grinding and boss-hunting is just monotonous. Those bo…

I love this fighter costume~! Too bad fighter is kind of out-classed by everybody else... Equites by Romina, Hanging Guard by Grandice and Battlesmith Idge. Hopefully she will be redeemed when the expert blunt stance comes out.

Update: The winners have been announced. See 3.4 Loading Screen Contest Winners. It's just too bad that the only "prize" is bragging rights. A contest with no prize? Lame.

Here are some quotes from the Twitter chat with G1-Neume... Bold emphasis mine as usual.

That said, in the near term we have plans to offer newer Crafting packs when SotNW 3.4 launches. We hope the new packs will drive down the price of upgrading in SotNW especially for Veteran and above items. We suggested a +4 Lacquer as well. Not sure what imc will do with the idea though...

We also have our annual SotNW Holiday patch that is happening in December with a new Holiday event. We WILL have a Christmas event for both SotNW and WarRock. SNW's event may include the dreaded Rudolf. Not sure yet...

We are currently working on adding new costumes to the SotNW bazaar. They should be there before long.

SotNW 3.4 will include 2 new pets! Our 4.0 will also include at least 1 new pet and we have plans for even more pets after that. SotNW 3.4 changes the way obtaining a pet works so it will make it easier for us to add more pets in the future. Pet food for Feso will stay. It's likely we'll…

After dumping Ghae (Andre) in the quarters, Empedocles (m/ele) and Visca (Grace) spent 2 more days in Skeleton Dungeon Ancient Area, before moving on to Bahamar Ancient Mineral Cave. When the pass expired, they reached Veteran Lv.10. Visca (Grace) consumed EXP Cards until she became the 8th expert. (140m EXP is required to advance from 0% to 100% at Veteran Lv.10.)

The experts decided to join an impromptu squad to make the family's first entry into Occulta Dungeon. They hunted the Kobold Elders and recovered Lorenzo Diary 1517 for Emilia.

From Emilia's confrontation with Gertrude, it was revealed that something sinister enough to manipulate the Ten Nobles was involved, which kept things secret after Ferruccio died. Dr. Lorenzo was searching for the Power of the Ancients (Constellation stances) and the Five Elements. (See Lands of Elements.)

According to Emilia, the Ancients lived on islands floating in the sky... This sounds suspiciously like the next destination of Montoro revea…

You can enter Occulta Dungeon from Tierra Dias with 5 Ancient Runes - Ti, or from Tierra Noche with 5 Ancient Runes - Te. The two maps cycle every 4 hours, starting with daytime (Tierra Dias) at midnight (server time). The Kobold Elders are needed for Nar Recruitment Quest (10 kills) and Constellation Stance Quest (Lorenzo Diary 1517). You should get both quests before entering the dungeon, so as to do them together.

1. Guard Room (G10)You can reach the Guard Room by moving north directly from the dungeon entrance. There are Dullahan monsters (Golem) flanking the entryway in this room. Just run and use healing potions. Since I didn't bring Emilia the Sage, I couldn't try this... but you might be able to survive the mobs and the traps in the next room better if you use Protection Field instead of relying on potions.

2. Trap Room (G9)There is a trick which allows you to see where the spike traps are located. Type /camcol off in the chat window. This allows you to move the camera a…

Update: It turns out the 2 pictures from the forum are part of a larger story in Virgin家の女たち2. Gracielo was staring at her bosom and back, before going for the up-skirt view... I guess he wants appetizers before going for the "main course"...

After a long service in the family, Anahita (f/sco) finally became the 7th expert. Ghae (Andre) was promoted, and joined Empedocles (m/ele) and Visca (Grace) as the active veterans. They visited Los Toldos, using 103 Mysterious Powders to farm 124 Pure Otites and craft an Elite Candlestick.

Meanwhile, the family continued with Halloween Monster Hunts, and earned another 12 bonus rewards - 5 back costumes and 70 EXP Cards. On the last day (Wed), there was only 1 hour to do all 3 missions before maintenance (Wed 1am PDT), and the family managed to finish the last one before maintenance started. The frequent visits to Ferruccio Wall for the hunts led to the family's first encounter with the elusive Grim Reaper Leader (Lv.105).

After maintenance, the veterans activated a 7-day pass and returned to Skeleton Dungeon Ancient Area for the rest of the week, using up 10 Witch's Candies. After 3 days, Ghae (Andre) reached Veteran Lv.2, while Empedocles (m/ele) and Visca (Grace) reached Vet…

Since v3.0, Sword of the New World has reduced its default character slots in the family quarters from 15 to 4. The accompanying bug is that existing families that have only 15 slots are also affected. So a family with 7 characters would have 7/4 instead of 7/15.Quarter Slots will be injected to ALL accounts logged in on August, 2009.
The scripts for injecting the QS have already been activated. However, due to the huge number of accounts that the script is targeting at, some of you may receive the item only in the next few days.
We are expecting the script to be completed by Wednesday, 11th of November. [Source]

See more in the forum discussion. Just for comparison, the default slots for sGE is 9.

As a notice for non-US players, Daylight Saving Time (DST) has ended for Sword of the New World servers a few days ago. This means the server time is now GMT-8, instead of GMT-7. You can also check the server time (aka Sword Standard Time) at G1: Sword of the New World. To check your local time with respective to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), see here.

DST starts on the second Sunday of March, which is three or four weeks earlier than in the past, and it ends on the first Sunday of November... [Source]

I wonder if this means you end up with an extra hour of timed items (e.g. Ancient Area Pass) during the switch...

Since the game client doesn't have a built-in server clock, I recommend FoxClocks browser add-on, if you run the game client in Window mode, and usually has Firefox browser active... Simply select "US Pacific" for add-on settings to show the time in the browser.

In addition, there are some old skins I have downloaded previously, but are no longer available at kGE website. The Mouse Skin has a translucent cooling blue layer as displayed in the screenshot below. The classic v2.9 Default Skin is also available for v3.x clients. You may also want to try out Blossom Skin and Black Skin.

I didn't make these skins. Credit goes to whoever created the skins, whoever they may be...

To prepare for Reboldeaux Vigilante team (v3.5), the family recruited Tantalus (Panfilo). He was named after the king who dismembered, cooked, and fed his son to the gods and was thus punished in Tartarus in Greek mythology. Lara (Brunie) and Tantalus (Panfilo) spent some time relaxing in Gigante Beach, before Jack brought them over to Rion Dungeon Hollow and Fire Isle Free Zone until they reached Lv.80.

Darn... I should have bought them the bugged feso costumes in v2.9. Ugh.

The family joined in the Halloween Monster Hunts. After a false start on the first day, the family tried to beat their own records by a small margin (1-5 seconds), allowing them to receive 10 bonus rewards which they chose the permanent back costumes.